I have seen countries change their name during my lifetime.
By marguicha
@marguicha (216912)
Chile
October 4, 2023 10:44am CST
Things change.
I change
I have seen countries change their name. I can still remember the beautiful stamps I was given when I was a child. They were from Cyrenaica and Eritrea.
Later on, my sister in law married an English member of the English Embassy and went to live in Rhodesia.
Do they still exist? I do hope that the animals pictured in the stamps still do. But their names might have changed. Now Rhodesia is Zimbabwe.
My first post today was deleted. I cannot say that it was because I clicked on a wrong letter. I am sure that it was because I typed the right letters. So be it.
So today I´ll wash clothes (the sun is bright) and go on trying to find a med for my ears that disappeared.
Later I´ll cook, eat and do some chores. I love you all.
See you. Or not.
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11 responses
@xFiacre (12561)
• Ireland
4 Oct
@marguicha @fleura Two weeks after our family moved to Nyasaland in 1964 it changed its name to Malawi. All very confusing for a 6 year old boy.
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@sreejithsreenivas (10200)
• India
4 Oct
I am from India and our government is planning to change our nations name to Bharat
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@celticeagle (160797)
• Boise, Idaho
4 Oct
We used to hang our wash outside. So nice.
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@ptrikha_2 (45726)
• India
4 Oct
Actually
There was
Northern Rhodesia - now Zambia
Southern Rhodesia - now Zimbabwe
Turkey is now Turkiye
Plus more name and entity changes.
Remember Yugoslavia - which got divided into multiple countries.
I need to check for more name changes as well.
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@RasmaSandra (74599)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
4 Oct
I hope you had a good day. My countdown continues for two more days and groceries, Whenever I write my travel posts I always have to check out facts first about countries and locations,
@Fleura (29266)
• United Kingdom
4 Oct
Eritrea was annexed by Ethiopia in the 1950s and regained independence in the 1990s.
Rhodesia became Zimbabwe in 1980.
I had never heard of Cyrenaica before; apparently it's part of Libya.
Yes names do change, even countries change. When I was a child there was the USSR, East and West Germany, Cyprus (all one country), Czechoslovakia. Rhodesia was still the name of Zimbabwe, Myanmar was Burma, Laos was part of Vietnam I think, Sri Lanka was Ceylon.
@LindaOHio (160234)
• United States
5 Oct
There have been so many name changes for countries over the last 50 years or so. Have a great day.
